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Did you know that cancer cells have an invisibility cloak that prevents them from being recognized by the immune system? Scientists are making cancer cells vulnerable to the immune system by removing the cells’ invisibility cloak!! This is what our newest video in the series Progress and Promise of Stem Cell Research is all about!!…

Learn about the underlying biology of Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (PMM2-CDG), what treatment options are available, and how you can make a difference to fill a very urgent gap. This video was produced with support from the Amour Fund. To make a contribution towards PMM2-CDG research, please visit: http://www.alphaepsilonomega.org/foundation/amour/

What is the newest research being pursued to treat HIV? In this video, you will learn about a new technology being tested to make immune cells HIV resistant. This video was produced in collaboration with Americans For Cures and explains how stem cell research, funded by California’s Proposition 71: the California Stem Cell Research and…

Precision medicine is the practice of using a cancer cell’s DNA to guide therapy. Learn how scientists have used precision medicine to treat rare brain tumors. This video was produced in collaboration with Malak Abed and her team in Boston.

Since the discovery of DNA’s fundamental role in building and sustaining life, scientists have dreamed of having the ability to easily edit DNA in very precise ways. This video explores how a group of scientists made a major breakthrough in understanding the bacterial immune response, called the CRISPR/Cas system, and discovered a way to utilize…

What do antibiotics do? What’s all the fuss about antibiotic resistance? Is it really a problem? In this video, we use the example of antibiotic resistance to learn how science can inform policy and guide future treatments. This video was produced with the Science Policy Group at UCSF.

While postdoctoral fellows at the NIH, Joe Goldstein and Michael Brown were presented with a young patient with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a disease characterized by high LDL cholesterol and atherosclerosis. Scientific curiosity along with a desire to help these patients led Brown and Goldstein to dedicate themselves to understanding the biological basis for FH. This…

Learn about the Ebola virus and the current 2014 outbreak. How does the Ebola virus infect humans? Why do certain patients survive and others don’t? What treatments are currently being tested? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this video.

In the 1980s, scientists knew that DNA polymerase could not copy the ends of chromosomes, yet chromosome ends were still largely maintained in an organism. Additionally, they observed that the ends of chromosomes consists of highly repetitive sequences they called telomeres. Blackburn and her colleagues hypothesized that the cell must have a mechanism to add…

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy is a devastating genetic disease that comes in multiple forms and affects the myelin around neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Learn about the different subtypes of MLD, the biology underlying the disease, and what potential treatments are available and will become available thanks to MLD research. This video was produced…